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STENA FORERUNNER arrived in Belfast on Sunday 26 August, coming from Rotterdam. She is one the vessels to replace the previously Seatruck-chartered ferry STENA PERFORMER.
The latter re-emerged as SEATRUCK PERFORMER on August 28, when leaving the Cammell-Laird drydock in Birkenhead. She will be used on Seatruck’s own Warrenpoint – Heysham route.

Stena Line Ports is investing more than £4m in upgrades to improve infrastructure at the Port of Holyhead after recording a record year for freight growth.
The upgrades will include the creation of additional freight space at the Port and also extensive refurbishment to the Terminal 3 ramp.

February 20 saw the official inauguration of Stena Line’s Europoort (Rotterdam) terminal. The existing berth has been upgraded and a second berth has been added.
The new quay is now 212m long.
The two berths will help to handle the still growing freight volumes on Harwich and Killingholme.

Today Belfast represents Stena Line’s largest operational hub with seven ships providing up to 22 daily crossing options.
A further £500,000 will be invested in the upgrade of onboard passenger facilities this spring.

On Friday 2 February 2018, the official keel-laying ceremony of the first 3,100 lane meter Stena RoPax (Hull W0263) took place at the AVIC Weihai Shipyard in China.
The two new vessels under construction for Stena RoRo are planned for 2019 and 2020, and will be deployed on the Irish Sea.

The Swedish company Processkontroll Elektriska AB has been chosen to build the new shore power installation in the Port of Oslo.
Stena Line would like to connect its ferry STENA SAGA. However, to convert the veteran Stena is seeking subsidies from Enova SF, owned by the Norwegian Ministry of Petroleum and Energy. Otherwise it is not economically sustainable.
On Tuesdays the ship is 10 hours in port. According to the company’s own calculations, the use of shore power every Tuesday will help reduce annual emissions by about seven tonnes of NOx and 300 tonnes of CO2.
Color Line already has two ships connected to shore power. Now the port hopes that DFDS will also opt for cold ironing for its cruise ferries.

Dutch construction and engineering company Ballast Nedam has replaced the existing quay and built two new berths at the Stena Line freight terminal in Europoort, Rotterdam. This was needed because of the intention to introduce larger ships, and because the quay was getting too old.
Initially only one berth would be replaced, but the booming North Sea business made Stena ask during the works Port of Rotterdam to invest in a second berth. Ballast Nedam was able to change the plans and realised successfully a new 2-berth terminal.